Students of History

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

If you're a US History teacher looking for PDF worksheets for your high school or middle school classroom, I have tons to share, including this 30+ page packet of free engaging assignments you can download and start using right away. Each US History unit also include thorough 9-page worksheets packets for every unit in the curriculum.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

The group purposefully uses language to help the public understand that drugs belong to one of two categories: those that are approved for consumption by a government agency and those that are not. Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History. Consider the NHRC’s use of the phrase “licit and illicit” in principle 1.

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Students of History

JANUARY 25, 2022

The Jim Crow Era was when racial segregation was legalized, African Americans were disenfranchised, and white supremacists controlled governments across the South. 6th insurrection at the Capitol (I have a lesson for this here ), I came across an article about the only "successful" coup or insurrection in US History.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 19, 2024

Teaching American History’s Documents and Debates volumes present s American history as a series of topics. As the 1928 presidential race drew to a close, the Republican candidate, former Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover outlined the Republicans’ governing philosophy, which he credited with producing the prosperity.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

When the AP United States history students at Aragon High School in San Mateo California, scanned the professionally designed pages of www.minimumwage.com , most concluded that it was a solid, unbiased source of facts and analysis. Northport, N.Y., Photo: Janis Shachter. My students are all about social media.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Still in its early stages, this ambitious project relies on a little-known public resource — a slice of electromagnetic spectrum the federal government long ago set aside for schools — called the Educational Broadband Service (EBS). Explaining why requires some history. Photo: Andrew Franco.

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ACRE

APRIL 15, 2024

The lesson could be used as a precursor to a unit on the New Deal in history classrooms or as a case study on economic policy impacts in a social science course. This lesson was designed to continue the topics presented in Dr. Witcher’s economic history lessons on The Great Depression.

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Students of History

AUGUST 12, 2021

You can preview and download any of them through the links below, but here are the major updates and changes: 1. Here's a few sample images from my World and US History digital notebook sets: These updated digital notebook sets are awesome for in-class learning our when kids are learning at home.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Teaching American History provides various free resources for American history and government teachers, including our popular seminars , multi-day seminars , and extensive database of original source documents. Two Core Document Collections cover the entire scope of American history. in the TAH bookstore.

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Teaching American History

MAY 14, 2024

Today’s blog is an edited excerpt from the introduction to TAH’s CDC volume, Congress , edited by Joseph Postell , available in our bookstore for free download or purchase. In other words, is liberty endangered by a government of elites, who ignore their constituents, or by a government that is too democratic, with majority tyranny?

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Living Geography

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

PDF download) Written by Paul Steer, Head of Policy at OCR. I've been fortunate to work on a few things linked with OCR's work over the years, and serve on their Consultative Forums for both Geography and Natural History. A review of the 11-16 Curriculum and Assessment , chaired by former Education Secretary Charles Clarke.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 12, 2023

At Teaching American History, we know teachers are hungry for resources that help their students understand the nuances of American civic behavior. For secondary and post-secondary government and political science educators, we are proud to recommend our CDC volume, Religious Liberty: Core Court Cases. Download your free copy here.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

OCTOBER 13, 2023

I can’t imagine teaching civics and government without political cartoons—they are essential to the subject. Then, download your FREE lesson kit to get started. So here I’ve outlined some activity ideas for using them to help you teach five key government concepts. I’ll post these cartoons around the room as stations.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

While no guidelines on classroom technology govern the network, according to Berger, there is a shared wariness of anything that might undermine EL’s collaborative ethos. As a prelude to discussing leadership, peer pressure and conflict, a Crew of seventh graders at King Middle School in Portland, Maine, played a game called “Instigator.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

The wood desk was empty, too, but her mother had made the bed with a brand-new sheet set and comforter, so Williams sat on the twin bed, opened the laptop her godbrother had sent, and downloaded Skype and ooVoo so she could chat with her friends long-distance. She looked around again. psychology class.

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Zinn Education Project

APRIL 14, 2025

In the first quarter of 2025, we saw increases across every major metric compared to the same period in 2024: total page views, total visitors, new visitors, PDF downloads, and registrations were all up. The most downloaded lesson this quarter was Teaching Palestine-Israel from the Perspective of Civil Rights and Black Power Activists.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 30, 2024

But our research on firewood gathering by Diné people shows the federal government can do more to ensure the promises of equitable co-management. Instead, it looks broadly at history, politics, ideologies, and other factors to explain how these harms emerge and get perpetuated across time and space.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 12, 2024

Cara Fitzpatrick When I read this book, I learned some fascinating and frankly ugly things about the history of school choice in the U.S. Because I’ve always understood school choice as “this is government money that will follow the student to whatever they go to.” And that is one of the natural consequences of competition.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

The state’s rugged landscape, its patchwork of state, federal and tribal land ownership, and the minimal coordination between internet providers and government agencies combine to keep New Mexico consistently near the bottom on national surveys measuring internet access in homes. Related: Hot spots no silver bullet for rural remote learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

Lessons like these help students gain critical thinking skills and give them an opportunity to learn about workers’ rights and labor history, subjects that are often missing from classroom discussions, educators say. history, first in Portland, Oregon, and later at the Harvest Collegiate High School, a small public school in New York City.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Rather than trumpeting the cause of self-government, Douglas’s doctrine of popular sovereignty was its death knell. Only adherence to the self-evident truth that all human beings were equal could save popular sovereignty—self-government—for all. He did so to fight Douglas on the ground that Douglas claimed as his own.

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Zinn Education Project

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The right is doing all they can to suppress the teaching of history, but they are not succeeding. Check out this list of lessons that were most frequently downloaded from the Zinn Education Project website this year! government. government. How do we know? Who Gets to Vote?

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 14, 2024

The right is doing all they can to suppress the teaching of history, but they are not succeeding. Check out this list of lessons that were most frequently downloaded from the Zinn Education Project website during the 2023–2024 school year! government. How do we know? Mexico War. Roles available in Spanish.

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 29, 2024

As the election approached, the Federalists, the party in control of the federal government, passed laws that limited free speech. Hamilton thought that self-government would survive under Jefferson, and the Federalists would have another day. Self-government had proved itself—as it would have to do again and again.

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TCI

OCTOBER 28, 2024

This broad field draws upon various disciplines, such as anthropology, archeology, economics, geography, history, law, and philosophy. Download the full eBook and explore the entire blog series for a more in-depth look at these topics, along with useful checklists and resources. million to $23 million as grants available to states.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

In August, Michigan history teacher James Gorman watched televised images of torch-bearing white supremacists marching on the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and decided to use the incident to teach his students about similar events that happened in a divided United States 150 years ago. history when black lives mattered.”.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

Whitaker to talk about his book, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America , a history of the idea of Black criminality in the making of the modern United States. I appreciated hearing about the history of how data has been (mis)used to construct a narrative of Black criminality.

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